![]() South Korea undertook a massive public and private sector effort to fashion a national response to the pandemic. It became the second most infected country after China by early March. South Korea saw a steep spike of case numbers in the following weeks and reached its peak daily case count on February 29 – forty days after its first confirmed case on January 20 – with 909 new cases and up nearly 500 from the previous day. It also came to serve as a warning to the rest of the world by underscoring the grave consequences of failing to practice social distancing and self-isolation. Dubbed “Patient 31,” this particular case not only represented a critical point that led to the rapid transmission of the virus through the rest of Korean society. ![]() ![]() Then on February 18, media reports surfaced that a 61-year-old Korean woman tested positive for the virus in Daegu, South Korea’s third-largest city. The rate of infection gradually moved to 30 by February 17. South Korea saw its first confirmed COVID-19 case on January 20.
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